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From the U.S. Naval Institute Facebook page: After the engine cut out, a Dauntless returning to USS Yorktown began to fly erratically and lose altitude until the pilot was able to restart it. The pilot called to his gunner: “I bet 50 percent of the people down there thought we were going to crash.” The […]

More than half of respondents were grounded by weather during the year.

Iris Cummings Critchell, an aviation pioneer and the last known surviving U.S. Olympic swimmer from the 1936 Berlin Games, passed away at age 104 last week. According to the New York Times, after competing in the games where she finished fourth in her 100m breaststroke heat in Berlin, Critchell turned her attention to another passion—aviation. […]

I was an early adopter of the headset-friendly Flying Eyes sunglasses, evaluating the company’s first Hawk model back in 2012. I liked them so much I had them fitted with my prescription. I kept the long-term evaluation going and today I own three pairs of Flying Eyes glasses—all fitted with my prescription. How are they […]

From IFR Magazine reader Larry Anderson: I recently had my Jetprop panel updated at a Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport FBO. We conducted several test flights to verify everything was working correctly and the airplane could be signed off for release. On one approach, this was the conversation with the Tower: Jetprop: “Phoenix Tower, Jetprop 1234 […]

Half of respondents say they’ll clap for a landing but the other half won’t.

Quite a lot has been written (and vlogged) about the crash of a Cessna 140 in a spot landing competition in May 2022. Most accounts point out—correctly—how decisions about spacing and glide path management, and even whether it was wise to hold the “pick-up game” contest in winds that caused cancellation of a larger, planned […]

Overheard on a Unicom frequency: In a busy traffic pattern, one aircraft turns base to final with arguably excessive altitude. A couple of other aircraft in the pattern chime in: Aircraft No. 1 – “That looks awfully high. How is he going to get down from up there?” Aircraft No. 2 – “I usually use […]

Yep, no-brainer. Battery backup and longer recording.

Get an eye-watering proposal for the installation of a new IFR navigator and thoughts might turn to sourcing a used one. For some, that isn’t necessarily a bad idea, but it isn’t exactly easy, either. That’s because there aren’t a lot of choices that we think make sense, mainly because of support—or lack of. The […]